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title: During more than one-third of a life which began in 1824, I have pas… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: During more than one-third of a life which began in 1824, I have passed almost annually over the continent of Europe. Who acts: life, I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 107

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During more than one-third of a life which began in 1824, I have passed almost annually over the continent of Europe.

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**Who acts:** life, I · **What happens:** begin, pass · **To what, where:** 1824, continent

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:1:108
# text = During more than one-third of a life which began in 1824, I have passed almost annually over the continent of Europe.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1824	1824	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | a life |  |  | 1824 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the continent of Europe | during one third of a life | annually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over continent=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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